Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-12-15
NEWS AND COMMENT.


been unearthed in Missouri.
Seventeen counties in New York re
port hog cholera prevalent
1t is estimated that 100000 person.
: are out of work in New York city.
The present wheat area of Ohio is
about 1000 acres short of that of last
year.
The present wheat area of Ohio is
about 1000 acres short of that of last
year.
During three days last week, 15O
sheep were killed by dogs in the vicin-
Iity Of Canton.
Mrs. Isaac Gephart of Osborn, Mont
gomery county, dropped dead in her
yard from beast disease.
Blanche Vest of Buchtel, age 13, was
burned to death by her clothes catch
ing fire from CRATE.
The woman suffragists have perfected
an organization in the Third Congress
sional district of Indiana.
George Field, one of the oldest mem
bers of the Chicago board of trade, is
dead at the age of seventy-one years.
The 21st annual meeting of the Ohio
Horticultural society is being held this
week at Toledo
A widespread coal famine exists in
western Kansas, and settlers are becom-
ing desperate.
Herr Most, the New York Anarchist,
was denied new trial, and was senten-
ced to one year in the New York Peni-
Tertiary.
Alphonsine M. Gordon, a beautiful
young lady just out of her teens, has
been appointed deputy United States
Marshal at Trenton, n. j.
The state live stock commission has
sent an inspector to Cincinnati to in
spect cattle supposed to be infected with
contagious disease.
The old Herr mill, near Troy, Ohio,
used by the state as a stable for canal
horses, was burned and six horses and
two mules perished in the flames.
At Dayton the c., H. & D. Railroad
has filed suit to foreclose the S450, 900
mortgage on the Dayton, Fort Wayne
& Chicago Road.
Democrats generally are pleased with
the Presidents message, and, Republi-
cans also, from their point of view, seem
delighted.
An epidemic ef typhoid fever is re-
ported from Pittsburgh, South Side
One physician has $50 cases, and those
are of all ages.
The Republican National Committee
in session at Washington last Thurs
day, decided to hold the National Con-
vention at Chicago, on June 18th, 1888.
A heavy sea at Coney Island, N. Y,
almost ruined the Hotel Brighton and
damaged the Marine Railway. Loss
S150,0OO.
Toledo has spent between 100000
and $3,000,000 the past year in improv-
ing business facilities and in promoting
the health and comfort of the citizens.
Near Piqua, Ohio, two masked men
forced their way into the house of John
II. Wolfe. Wolfe seized a gun and shot
one of the robbers dead. The other
escaped.
Senator Palmer of Michigan it is re-
ported, has come out in favor of Prohi-
bition, and advised the Republicans of
the state to make that the next issue
On Wednesday of last week, the
marble works of w. j. Archer, at Steu-
benville, were destroyed by fire Loss
81, 500; insurance, $1,000.
A new town named Paris has Just
been laid out in Montana The first
thing we know, some enterprising citi-
zen will start paper and call it ''The
Paris Green"
New York is to have an underground
railroad With roads above, on and un-
der ground, when the metropolis shall
want still more railroad facilities she
will have to use the balloon.
Chief Justice Waite was II years old
tuesday of last week. He was eligible
% retirement year ago, and he could |
hen have left the supreme bench and
lrawn his salary of $4,000 for the rest
If his life.
James Goodfr1end & Co., at East
Liverpool, recently made an assignment.
As the liabilities were found to be S20,-
700, with only $1,000 assets, suspicion {
was raised. Large qualities of secreted
goods have since been found.
Lewis Harris, horse dealer of Steu-
is in the hands of the law
Rebecca Harris, from Poland, arrived
n that place last week, and swore Lewis
lad deserted her and four children II
7ears ago. Harris has a wife at Steu- (
and is charged with bigamy.
John Haggerty, an employe at the {
Benwood (W. Va steel plant, was liter {
llly roasted alive on Thursday morning
1t o'clock. He fell down. and large
white hot ingot passed slowly over his
body, cooking the flesh. He was still '
live when rescued. t
The Charlotte. Mich, waterworks we'll |
s 100 feet deep and curious fish was |
out of it the other day. 1t was
,wo and quarter inches long, had keen 7
bright eyes but no fins or scales, and :
is back was fringed with row of bony
spikes.
Ohio always comes to the 'front.' S
Thirty-six membeas of the 50th Con-
yress were born within her borders
0f our own delegation of %, the state
) the birthplace of 16, besides 20 others I
rom other states, including five Sena- l
ors. '
Nav York police have arrested '
Charles A. Forth and George B. oliver, 6
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